MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

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MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 7:02pm

Avenue Q, Dracula (Wildhorn), Drowsy Chaperone, Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Spring Awakening, 13 and more.

http://www.mtishows.com/

#2

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 7:03pm

I am sure a ton of middle schools will put on 13.

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re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 7:05pm

A lot of community theaters will do 13 and Legally Blonde and Hairspray i think and the other hows will be done too just not as much but amazing my director has has his eye on 13 since it came out

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re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 7:06pm

Was that English?

#5

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:06pm

No surprises here. I was pretty confident that Spring Awakening and 13 were going to MTI. The new website design, however, is a travesty. It's definitly not an improvement over the last design and I still don't understand why they list shows that are restricted with no information about the show and no hints as to when the right will become available. Or why they list shows as restricted and then list all the companies that are doing them in the coming year.

Updated On: 12/20/08 at 08:06 PM

#6

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:07pm

I like the new design. The old one was woefully inadequate.

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#7

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:22pm

I wonder if the language was changed for Spring Awakening, similar to the "high school version' of Rent. I imagine this property will be more popular with college theatres than high school.

Agreed...next year, every middle school will be doing 13...Lord help those poor communities..

#8

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:28pm

Xanadu should be fun. I'm going to suggest it to our director for next year.

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#9

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:31pm

And they're also handling the rights to Dracula and The Drowsy Chaperone. That's cool.

Hey, I liked both shows equally. What are ya gonna do?

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#10

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:38pm

Dracula is interesting. I wonder which version they'll offer. There are so many.

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re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:43pm

It's the Frank Wildhorn version if that's what you mean.

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#12

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:45pm

No. I mean, there's several versions of the Frank Wildhorn show. The La Jolla version, Broadway, Post-Broadway and German to name a few.

#13

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 8:57pm

Wasn't there a nude Lucy scene in Dracula? I suppose that's been cut out....

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re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 9:08pm

CATS, check your PMs.

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#15

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 9:09pm

Did you guys see, there's a SWEENEY TODD: SCHOOL EDITION on there?

That should be interesting.

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#16

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 9:37pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is on there, too...it looks like a lot of summerstocks filled with Hairspray, Xanadu, and RENT for the upcoming years.

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#17

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 9:41pm

This is pretty cool. I know there's a dude in my drama class who shouts every time anyone mentions suggestions for the school musical, "LEGALLY BLONDE!" He may just have his way... (I personally think I would make a SPLENDID Bruiser.)

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#18

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 10:46pm

I'm assuming the version of Dracula that will be licensed is the one that was premiered at the Kelsey Theatre in NJ two years ago.

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re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 11:29pm

It's interesting that they have 13 listed as two acts, since it's now only one act.

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#20

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 11:34pm

I waiting for the day when a high school version of Best Little Whorehouse is available.

#21

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/20/08 at 11:36pm

Just because MTI now controls the rights doesn't mean they'll be readily available.

#22

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/21/08 at 12:12am

Oh my god... they got Xanadu...

I know of several theatres in New Jersey which will all be begging to have this show come next year. If I do this and Drosy Chaperone, my life will soon be complete...

#23

re: MTI picks up performance rights to Spring Awakening, 13, more

Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:04pm

This is exciting! I would love for my school to do one of those next year; but if I were to be honest out of all of those my musical directors will probably want to do Xanadu or Legally Blonde, since those are more 'high school appropiate' than, say, Spring Awakening. (Hairspray would be one, too, but we don't have enough black students in our school to make it work.)